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' ^ vis -view -fee poured down his trbopp >? ith an immense artillery , and coai-Jnencedan attack , which , by all accounts , was as tremendous as any that this war has seen . -The brunt of the battle lay on the English troops , in the centre of
-the left wing : the Spanish troops on the right having but little share in the engagement , - The battle lasted a night apd the greater part of two days ; but the enemy were every where repulsed , and compelled to give tip their enterjirize , leaving , behind them an immense rnumber of killed and wounded , several
pieces of cannon and seme colours . Their retreat was however made in good o *> < ier , and our army was no * able to pursue them . Why this was not done by the Spaniards , who were so little afFect tC < L by the main battle , occasions no email degree of surprise . The victory was not obtained on our side without prodigious slaughter .
Upwards of five thousand men were killed , \ vounded > or missing ; but a reinforcement of English arrived the day after the battle . The place to which the Oallo-Spanish king retreated is not ascertained ; but the specimen he has had
pf ^ English valour may make him featrftgj of venturing on another attack . In this , ease it can hardly be doubted ; thftt he will be pursued by the combined army , strengthened , we should imagine , } yy . great reinforcements from the Junta ; for if the Spaniards are realty in ejarofcst , » ow is the time for their exertions .
JVfodrid must of course fall , and the vOaUo-Spanish ting must make another macch northwards ta his $ } & entrench " , n > en £ s , 4 : 0 the north of the ^ Bb ro in Old vQastiJle . If tfee Cotte ? were immediately assemble *! in Madrid , and a real ^ constitution ; given to the people , with
* hose improvements which experience lias . 4 isco , vere 4 to be necessary , Spain might become an independent 'kingdom . : But a JBpqnaparte has had the credit of « kstroyiug the inquisition , / and of diminishing the influence of a lazy , overibmrwg priesthood . We . are not certain that these would not revive on the
sub-/ jjaction of the JFrench ; and whjat is the iindependence ^ of a kin gdom , if its subjects are k ^ pt in the wowt of thraldoms , ^ t—rtbat orf a » inquisition and a , pjrie ^ th ^ pd I ; n ? hie cheeks ftius . given to the'French £ * rm « # in JHolland ^ ntl Spain , have ^ ani-Jm a ted ; the hopes of many , who look ?! iorw » rd , ^ to £ w ture > ^ nte&tsi on th cJD a-., aube . BuCihey da ^ Qt > jcoiisuler ^ tiwhat » a
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distance from the ^ rand ^ sccne of ne ^^ ations the ^ e events [ have ta % en place . The destruction of a few ships in the Scheldt prevents th ^ French from meeting us on the sea : the occupation of ! Walcheren and Beveland curtails the $ k > , minions of the king of Holland : the
G ^ ilo-Spanish king may be made to re * treat over the Pyren ees 5 but all this does not affect the troops with the French emperor ; nor can the Austrians recruit their shattered finances , or hope to give spirit to their troops- Yet it . has ; be ^ n
said that the peace is not near . The negotiations however continue , and t { iey axe carried on , widi the greatest privacy . Buonaparte remains at Schoenbruaq , exercising his troops , not merely fpr ostentation , but to have them in readiness for a future conflict . He is also
fortifying h& posts on £ he '{^ aaube , aj > d should the armistice be broken , he vrUl evidently be better prepared for renewed hostilities than his enemy . The Archduke Charles has ^ wn ^ p the command of the arn ^ y to ihe ^ rmjtc of JLichtenstein ; but not without sipxje severe repropifs on the , condpet of sev ^ l officers and regiments . But there is no need of so much censure . He had \ o
fight with a superior . genius ,-and ^ a ^ fe et * ter ^ disciplined ; army . In the Fre ^ army superiority in rank -follows superior merit aiid ^ ervkes ; in tJie-Aus | JHro army an pffiqer may , be J > ut over tl ^ e head of another on various pretexts ; and it is npt ^ heirefore ^ o rbe wpn ^ d at , if in disorders that naight paturaUy occur , " the pflkers pf hjs Bt » ff ? knevr
not hpw $ 0 apply a remedy . " k is , easy for the unfortunate to throw blame pn each other . Nothing J ^ wever bi # 4 ? - spair will uige them , again into the §« lp » and the glory of the house of Austna . is 5 inlk for . ever .
T * l e ) nawstete of things , that ? is ? o ta ^ place on the Danube , niay ^ ffp ? 4 nip ^ fi matter of aorijeeture to tfee politicly * U is surmised that the Austrian caWt will be iKfjpmttked to t « He indemmt » cs . for what it toses jin the ^ west , liy a , ' « ? " «> us , coj > t < s , M : for new temtpries wp-W T « i ^ s . ThusiRuesi ^ ns ^^^ nch and ^ W ' trian * . will be armed agaiiiM ; thfeuw ^ PPT empire 'Which has Jiept r&o .-taMSg ? a , p <> " tion of * h e « world , int ignova » ce : iin ^^ « tition . fFfce ^ MatrXws ^ t ^ in ^ llCjpW ^ they had tafcen possession of ^ 4 n > Iw np » since the war ? began ; < wid : tfx ! t > & <*^ rmined that they . should mt ijgainat \ i ut-A ^ r , they >* vill . fbna-a ^ troSfliifeK ^^
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4 > O JStnte "of Futfic Affair * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/56/
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